Motivational Quotes

Opinions

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Opinions

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton